Why Backing Up Your Website Is Important?

So often, we take the time and attention to back up our computer’s hard drive, but don’t even think about backing up our websites. The fact that our site is out there in the WWW gives us a false sense of security that since it’s ‘out there’ it can never have a problem. It is time to start thinking about things differently when it comes to website backups. Here are some examples of what can happen if you don’t back up your website, and many of these actually happened.

•    By accident, you have deleted or ‘pruned’ the wrong section of your message forum.

•    The company you are hosting with decides to close up shop or sell to a company you’ve had previous problems with.

•    Your web host decides to upgrade and for a few hours (or even a day) at a time their system is down.

•    You work with several people ‘live’ on a website. They accidentally overwrote your work and you didn’t save a copy of the page.

•    You’ve upgraded software or scripts and it’s not working so you need to get your site back to the way it was last night before the changes.

•    Your web host holds your site or domain captive. Pending your dispute, you need to setup your site all over again even in another place and domain.

•    You or your webmaster forgot to save your blog’s database when saving the files and now you no longer can access your old site.